Product Description: In 1940, 28-year-old Jack Elworthy left New Zealand to fight in Europe, not to return for seven years. This is the story of his remarkable war, including the time he spent as an unofficial U.S. soldier. On mainland Greece, he got away just as the Nazis rolled in...read more

Product Description: For most of his adult life, Charles Brasch’s most intimate companion was his diary. In these journals, written in London during the Second World War, he is a young man searching for answers. Is he a pacifist? Should he join the army? Is he homosexual? Should he marry? Should he return home to New Zealand when the war ends? Are his poems any good? Some questions are resolved in the course of the journals, others not, but it all makes compelling reading...read more

Product Description: Jimmy Sheddan was one of the many New Zealanders who joined the RNZAF, then left his native land to come to England to fight the enemies of Great Britain and her Empire during World War Two. Through his recollections we can share some of the trials and wartime tribulations they faced...read more

'With America's 1941 entry into World War II and the movement of Japanese forces into the southern Pacific, U.S. troops were sent to protect Australia and New Zealand. New Zealand war veterans, those on the New Zealand home front, American servicemen andmembers of the next generation give voice to New Zealand's contribution to World War II'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: An expansive oral-history project recently undertaken by the New Zealand government provides these 13 eyewitness accounts of World War II. More than 10,000 New Zealand servicemen were on active duty with the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy at the time of the D-Day landings in June 1944, and these stories bring the crucial role that New Zealanders played in providing air cover on D-Day, aiding the French resistance, undertaking missions deep into enemy territory, and liberating the Belsen concentration camp in Germany into focus...read more

The author describes his experiences during World War II as a fighter pilot and prisoner of war. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The renowned autobiography of New Zealand's most famous RAF pilot who saw action from the Munich Crisis to the invasion of France in 1944. Al Deere experienced the drama of the early days of the Battle of Britain while serving with Spitfire squadrons based at Hornchurch and Manston, and his compelling story tells of the successes and frustrations of those critical weeks...read more

Product Description: When young Ron Mayhill came to England from his native New Zealand in 1943, seconded to the RAF to fight against the German forces, he was so excited by the whole process that he kept a diary and wrote long letters home. In these memoirs - based on his diaries, letters and accounts written at the time - he recalls the terror and exhileration often felt on these raids...read more